Preliminary Planning and Feasibility
- Analyze Project program, quality, cost, and schedule requirements. Evaluate operational and legal constraints. Recommend a design and construction strategy that best addresses all of these issues.
- Prepare for Owner’s review and approval a Project Cost estimate based upon a statistical analysis of completed projects adjusted for current market conditions. Such estimate should clearly identify all necessary categories of cost including, but not necessarily limited to, all professional fees (e.g. design, consultants, project management, legal, etc.), construction, testing, landscaping, furnishings, fixtures and equipment (“FF&E)”, including taxes, freight and storage, and contingencies.
- Prepare the Master Milestone Schedule showing duration/phasing, responsibility, and precedence for all major activities. Establish the duration of the Project and identify the most critical activities. Update and expand the level of detail as the Project progresses. Detailed construction schedule will be by the Construction Manager or the General Contractor.
- Identify, monitor, and report on the status of key decisions and issues which will influence the progress of the Project.
- Identify all critical Project constituents as well as all approvals and permits required to be obtained from the relevant governmental jurisdiction(s), public agencies, community interest groups, etc.
- Determine necessary design team members, qualify and recommend potential firms, prepare and issue requests for proposals, receive and evaluate written proposals, and conduct interviews to assist the Owner in selecting the Architect/Expeditor, Contractor, FFE Purchasing Agent, FFE Installer(s), and other consultants as required. Assist Owner in the negotiation of these contracts.
- Review existing conditions and available documentation of the same. Identify additional research, studies, surveys, etc. required, and with Owner’s approval coordinate the procurement of the same.
- Identify and help define the systems and tools that will be used to communicate, monitor, and control the Project.